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Hi all,

I am using FEAP 8.2 in my university, and have to write a user material routine, but there is no clear guideline/example about which files to modify for this purpose. Sorry to say, the programmer's manual is very short, and very little detail is there.

The old tutorials/examples based on FEAP (7.x) are no longer helpful because the FEAP 8.2, 8.3 source code has changed considerably (atlease the files in user folder), hence the novice can get mad after trying for many weeks to figure out the way for doing this.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear
Colleagues:

We
would like to invite you to submit abstract(s) to the Applied Mechanics and
Materials symposium (Track 10-21) at the upcoming 2012 ASME International
Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition to be held Nov 9-15,
2012, at Houston Texas.

Prospective authors should submit a 400-word abstract via
the web tool at the Congress 2012 website

Dear Colleagues,



A summer school on Nonsmooth Contact and Impact Mechanics is organized from September 10 to 14 at Aussois in the French Alpes. The main focus of the school will be on modeling and numerical/simulation  aspects,  and the following topics will be covered:



Algorithms for contact detection in time-stepping numerical methods

Convergence of time-stepping methods

Multiple impacts in multibody systems

Painlevé paradoxes

Waves in chains of balls

Simulating large fiber assemblies such as hair

Mike Ciavarelli and I discussed the possibility of doing a comparison of Italian and British Universities. On reflection, I could not decide where to begin but wrote the attached. It is part personal experience, part history and part Charles Dickens who was born 200 years ago today. If you don't understand the connection, read on.

I am looking for PhD at a reputed university in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in areas of specialization such as

1.Design and Manufacturing (Specialty: Adaptive Aircraft Design, Experimental Methods, FEA, Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics)

2.Energy (Biofuels, Fuel Cells, Nuclear Engineering)

3.Vehicle Dynamics (Automobile Safety, Automotive Powertrains, Impact & Crash-Worthiness, Rotor Dynamics)

4.Thermofluid Systems (Combustion Dynamics,IC Engines, Computational/Fluid Dynamics) 

Choon Chiang Foo, Shengqiang Cai, Soo Jin Adrian Koh, Siegfried Bauer, Zhigang Suo.

Model of dissipative dielectric elastomers.
Journal of Applied Physics 111, 034102 (2012).

Abstract

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the 2012 ASME

IMECE in Houston, to be held November 9-15, 2012.  Our minisymposium

is on "Multiphysics Simulations and Experiments for Solids", and is the

continuation of a very successful minisymposium held for the past 5 years

that have resulted in more than 40 presentations at the 2009, 2010 and 2011 IMECE conferences.  This year's focus areas

are:

1.Multiphysics modeling, simulation and experiments of electromechanical materials and systems